Hampton Inn Southfield

Phew... Going through US Customs was a bit trying... No searching but a lot of questions meant - I supposed - to catch us with something bad... Who knows. We did not loose any meal. We're in the middle of a fairground, with a weak WiFi but OK. The only analog TV channels are from Detroit but the Detroit area offers 22 digital channels, many

Longer day than expected but we grinded the flying condo to a halt. No problem other than a sticking lock on the propane door.

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After saying our goodbyes to everyone at Cedarlane RV Park this morning, we're on the road to Michigan, in the home! Gray skies and cool winds can't dampen our spirits - we are SO looking forward to this next week's travels - when we leave Michigan, we'll head south on I-75 towards Florida, with a two ...

Ah Detroit...home to the Pacers-Pistons brawl at the palace, the Russian national hockey team, and what will be the remnants of the once great American auto-industry once the bailout money is misappropriated and gone. I just had a burger at Chili's too for lunch, figuring it will be the last ...

... This fellow graduated with Bill, so we'll see if they can recognize each other. I mean it's only been 46 years!
Just got word that our shipboard account has been credited $250 as an "investor benefit" What a great deal! If you own 100 shares of the cruise line stock, you can collect shipboard credit every time you cruise. I got lucky and bought at the very ...

... would ever come to be realized.  Between incessant court-dates, elusive probation officers, and my own hemorrhaging of funds from traffic tickets and ubiquitous overdraft fees, my final days in the US felt like a hobble rather than a sprint to the finish.  Intermittently, I felt moments of disdain for the place I was raised.  A string of memorable weekend getaways with accompaniment from Daniel Pachota (born in South Dakota) amounted in my final days of summer, indicative of my longing to ...

... Pour me one of those bad boys", I thought, while actually just saying, "I'll have one of those, please." What I expected was a 'Drunkenstein' or an 'Onzefloorboom'. What arrived was the alcoholic equivalent of listening to 'The Best of the Panpipes' while laying in a sea of marshmallows. It was like drinking three day old bath water.

We had a night at some kind of amusement place which reminded me a lot of the scene from 'The Karate Kid" when our hero takes his ...

... 200 metres/yards when I am stopped (it took them a while to notice me). I am informed that this is a secure area and told to drive back around to the entrance to Canada. Somehow we find our way back under the bridge and park outside a boom gate. I am then escorted up to the admin area where they try to locate our papers. Start talking to one of the guys there telling him where we are going he says he wouldn't drive 2 hours to see his ...

... all of my favorite American things. Steve and I also visited our favorite dentist. I think everyone is aware of the British teeth stereotype... well, let's just say that dentistry in the UK is not quite the same as dentistry in America. After the dentist we hit Miller's for the best burger ever! While home we also indulged in fresh rolls from the east side and kielbasa for Ehor's in Detroit. Yum! Christmas ...

The lead up to the trip was pretty hectic. For those who don't know I was in Boston for 10 days, home for the weekend, Indy for a day for my (last) finger checkup, then off to Saipan the following day. The afternoon before I left for Boston, I got the green light for a business side trip to China while I'm in Saipan. That involved a whole bunch of form filling and FedExing to ...

... t it? There's no heat in there," Sinclair says. "America Idol -that's your metaphor for today. It's the triumph of the ****ing music business - the ultimate triumph, where they own these people from the minute they audition." Given that backdrop, these days, Sinclair is less concerned with creating a utopian world for other people. Nowadays, he works on creating it for himself. "That's my mission - to live the way I want to live more of the time while I'm still ...